Some things you must always be unable to bear. It falls upon Chick, a young black boy named Aleck, and an elderly white woman named Miss Habersham to find the evidence that will set Lucas Beauchamp free. The only comment he makes is to Chick Mallison, the lawyer's nephew. He calls for the services of a white lawyer, Gavin Stevens, but then refuses to answer his questions about the night of the murder. Beauchamp's pride makes things even more difficult. There are rumors of a planned lynching and time is short if Beauchamp is to be proved innocent. Lucas Beauchamp is a local black man who has refused to play the "nigger" for the white man and now finds himself falsely accused of shooting Vinson Gowrie, a white man. It is both a murder mystery and a straightforward picture of racial injustice. I'm sure that Faulkner has lost a lot of readers just because they didn't want to slog through the stream. I haven't missed punctuation marks so much since Lord of Misrule and all that was missing there were the quotation marks for dialogue.
If he hadn't had to have the characters want to tell you all about what they're thinking and by the way that reminds me of something else and while we're at it let me tell you this and no I don't think I'll use any punctuation for this three page sentence because well that might help or make it clearer or something and I certainly don't want that. What is sad about Intruder is that it could have been an absolutely brilliant book if Faulkner hadn't been all caught up in that stream of consciousness thing.
Intruder in the Dust, now that's different. But don't expect me to do any advertising for Melville. I'm not going to tell anybody, "You've just got to read Moby Dick !" If you want to and wind up loving it, then fine. There are quite a few difficult reads ( Moby Dick for one) that I am perfectly willing to admit are great literature and tell a good story-but I hated them. I hated every moment reading it, but I have to tell you it's one terrific story and I wound up loving it. Intruder in the Dust by William Faulkner is one of the hardest books I've ever read. Vintage Mystery Sunday: Case for Three Detectives.Something Wicked This Way Comes: Review.Challenge Complete: Location, Location, Location.Vintage Mystery Sunday: The Footsteps at the Lock.New Meme: One Book, Two Book, Three Book, Four.Booking Through Thursday: Age Appropriate.Booking Through Thursday: Age Inappropriate.Vintage Mystery Sunday: Suicide Excepted.If You're Having Commenting Issues on Blogger.Vintage Mystery Sunday: Death Under Sail.
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